Police Comics
#32
(July 1944)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Volume
- [1]
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1944-05-12
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- George Brenner (credited as George E. Brenner) (editor); Busy Arnold (credited as E. M. Arnold) (general manager)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date and volume number are from the publication date and volume number reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Volume 39, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 630825.
A Fiesta Turns into a Fracas!
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #3 (2001 [January 2002]) - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #808 - Plastic Man - Volume 8 ([April] 2017)
-
[The La Cucaracha Caper]
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Simeon T. Whistlebutton (introduction); Mr. Ames (introduction); Ellen Ames (introduction); Pancho (introduction); The Mask (villain, introduction); Mopes McGee (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- While on a vacation in Mexico, Plas and Woozy appear in drag.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #3 (2001 [January 2002])
-
[The Crooks Convention]
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns; Jughead Jones (first appearance)
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ah ain't heered fum Dewey in weeks!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Magnolia May; Uncle Eb
- Synopsis
- Magnolia May complains she hasn't heard from Dewey for weeks, so her uncle proposes a "magic charm." They concentrate on Dewey and order him to stop whatever he's doing. Dewey happens to be writing to Magnolia May, but he gets the psychic message and stops, visiting the camp canteen instead (where he finds a young woman to dance with).
[no title indexed]
Destiny / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Extry! Roy Carson doomed! Read all about it!
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Destiny; Death (introduction); Master of the Underworld (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Destiny meets a wrongly accused man and takes a bold gamble,using his trance state to secure an audience with Death himself. Although very angry, Death concedes that he is under orders "to keep his hands off" Destiny, so Death shepherds Destiny to the Master of the Underworld, a red devil who challenges the hero to a duel. Destiny uses jujitsu to best the devil and returns to the waking world to clear the doomed man of his crime.
[Thomas Hawkins]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/25/1941 (May 25, 1941)
-
Often a Bomb, Never a Dud
The Human Bomb / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ? (see notes)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton
Indexer Notes
Writer credit revised from Paul Gustavson to ? by Craig Delich April 5, 2013. Jim Amash, in the Quality Companion, verifies that Gustavson wrote this feature through Police (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #22, then picked up again with #37. The intervening writer is unknown for this story.
Paul's son, Terry, said that he never saw any of his Dad's work leave his Dad's studio that he had not penciled, inked, and lettered.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
A Fiesta Turns into a Fracas!
Plastic Man -
1.
[The La Cucaracha Caper]
Plastic Man -
2.
[The Crooks Convention]
Flatfoot Burns -
3.
["Ah ain't heered fum Dewey in weeks!"]
Dewey Drip -
4.
["Extry! Roy Carson doomed! Read all about it!"]
Destiny -
5.
[Thomas Hawkins]
The Spirit -
6.
The Wolf Man
-
7.
Often a Bomb, Never a Dud
The Human Bomb -
8.
[Doc Brewer's Tonic]
Burp the Twerp -
9.
The Giggling Corpse
Manhunter
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Bob Hughes
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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